Issue 01 · 2026
The Karma Yogi Journal. Field notes for the long grind.
- Essays
- 78
- Exam tracks
- 5
- Topics
- 52
The Lead
The essay we keep coming back to.
The Archive
Everything else worth reading, ordered by date.
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JEE In-Exam Time Management: A Section-Wise Strategy
Ninety questions, three hours, three subjects. A concrete checkpoint schedule for spending JEE Main time where it earns marks, plus the actual arithmetic behind why the sunk-cost trap costs so much.
NEET Biology: Why NCERT Mastery Beats Every Reference Book
A real NCERT sentence and the one-word trap built off it: it is the father’s chromosome, not the mother’s, that determines a child’s sex - and that qualifier is exactly what NEET tests.
NEET In-Exam Time Management: A Section-Wise Strategy
180 minutes, 180 questions, three subjects with very different costs-per-question - a worked minute budget (60 / 50 / 70) that adds up exactly, and where to spend the difference.
How to Analyse JEE Mocks (Beyond Just the Score)
A score of 187/300 tells you nothing about what to fix. Walk through a full mock breakdown - tagging every wrong answer by failure mode, then turning that into a specific revision list - with a worked example.
JEE Main vs Advanced: One Topic, Two Different Questions
Main and Advanced are not the same exam at different difficulty settings - they test different skills. Two contrasting example problems show exactly what changes, and what to do about it in the short gap between results.
NEET 2027 Exam Pattern: 180 Questions, 720 Marks, No Choice
45 Physics, 45 Chemistry, 90 Biology, 720 marks, one minute a question on average. The exact split, in marks, and why it should reorganize your study calendar more than any advice does.
JEE Main 2027 Exam Pattern: 75 Questions, 300 Marks, 3 Hours
JEE Main 2027 pattern, syllabus, and the actual formula NTA uses to turn a raw score into a percentile - with a worked illustration of why the same 220/300 can mean two different things in two different shifts.
CAT Preparation Without Coaching: What I Built to Replace It
I haven't enrolled in a single coaching institute for CAT. What I did instead was write a month-by-month plan, buy standalone mock series, and build my own tracker when nothing on the market did what I needed. 340 logged sessions later, here is what actually replaced coaching and what didn't.
CAT Selection Process: WAT, GD, and Personal Interview
I haven't sat a WAT-GD-PI round myself - my CAT is in November, so any interview process is still months off if it happens at all. What follows is what the process actually involves and how I'm planning to prepare for it, not a memoir of a round I haven't lived yet.
Why Studying With Friends Beats Studying Alone for CAT Prep
My own average session mood is 3.60 out of 5 - not high, mostly just 'showed up anyway.' That's exactly the kind of day solo willpower fails and a friend who can see your log doesn't care that you weren't excited about it.
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